Season 21

episodes

E1
1.The Sawhorse
Sep 29, 2001

The tools we use can be beautiful too! Roy shows you how to build beautiful saw horse.

E2
2.Welsh Chair Bodger Don Weber
Oct 6, 2001

Roy teams up with the old Welsh Bodger himself and together they demonstrate how to build a classic Welsh Stick Chair.

E3
3.Toolbox from the 1940s
Oct 13, 2001

You can learn how to build a timeless relic from past generations of fine woodworkers in this episode, a Joiner’s Tool Box.

E4
4.Rounder Plane
Oct 20, 2001

An endless “pencil” sharpener to make round tapered handles for rake, boat spars- and more.

E5
5.Walnut Krumhorn
Oct 27, 2001

Get down, get musical! Produce a wonderful old wind instrument from the Elizabethan era- the Krumhorn!

E6
6.Timber Frame at the Folklife Festival
Nov 3, 2001

Join Roy at the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival and learn how to build a timber-frame barn.

E7
7.Impossible Joints
Nov 10, 2001

Make a mysterious puzzle mallet with a devilishly difficult dovetail that’s impossible to break!

E8
8.Fools for Tools
Nov 17, 2001

Roy shows you how to find and restore traditional tools needed to do old time traditional woodworking.

E9
9.Blacksmith Hinges
Nov 24, 2001

Join Roy at the Anderson Forge in Colonial Williamsburg and see how to make a traditional cross garnet hinge.

E10
10.Tiny Furniture
Dec 1, 2001

Learn how to make “big” furniture by starting with scaled down versions.

E11
11.Window from Williamsburg
Dec 8, 2001

Learn how to build a four-light Colonial window sash.

E12
12.Flintlock Gunsmith
Dec 15, 2001

Roy visits the Gunsmith Shop at Colonial Williamsburg to see how 18th century flintlock rifles were made.

E13
13.Colonial Tablemaker
Dec 22, 2001

Watch Roy “spin the wheel” at the Cabinet shop in Colonial Williamsburg as they produce 18th century furniture the old fashioned way.